SWEET CALLAHAN HOMECOMING by Tina Leonard

Author:Tina Leonard [LEONARD, TINA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“Uh-oh,” Dante said. “Boy, is she ticked with you!”

“Me?” Xav really had no good way to refute that—Ash had been aggravated. “I’m crazy about her. She’ll eventually say yes to the dress idea, but she doesn’t want six or more noses in her business. Anyway, I know my girl, and she’s annoyed with you lot.” He sighed, knowing exactly why she’d told her brothers she didn’t want to wear the magic wedding dress—because she thought it was gone.

It was worth a recon mission into the attic to find out exactly what was going on. “Is this meeting over? I’ve got things to do, and Ash is right. Nothing’s getting done here.”

“You’re just itching to run off and get yourself in our sister’s good graces,” Tighe said. “We respect that. We’re married. We know how to keep our nests properly feathered.”

Xav frowned. “You guys need to give your sister some space. Ash will do what she wants when she’s good and ready. In the meantime, I’m out of here.”

He exited the library, not sure why the Callahans were so riled about their sister getting married. He’d never seen them so protective, in such a stew over their petite, precious Ash. Xav understood, but at the same time, he figured they ought to be darn grateful she was going to marry him—a long-standing friend of the Callahan family..

“I’m the man for her,” he muttered, heading up the attic stairs. “Magic dress or no. Interfering, overprotective brothers or not.”

But he had the feeling she really wanted exactly what her brothers had been advising: A home wedding, surrounded by family and friends, wearing the gown that was meant for her—the only Callahan female—to wear.

Of course she did.

Up in the attic, he jerked open the closet, cursed just a bit when it felt as if the doorknob burned his hand. That was totally his imagination running wild, spooked by Ash’s tale.

There was the white, poufy bag, just as Ash had described it. He unzipped it, stared at the voluminous white gown inside.

He blinked. Holy crap. Something’s terribly wrong here.

Grabbing his cell phone from his pocket, he called Ash. She picked up, sounding as though she was out of breath.

“Hello?”

“Gorgeous, can you come up to the attic for a second?”

“No,” Ash said slowly, “I most certainly can’t.”

“You need to see this.”

“Xav,” she said impatiently, “I know what you want to show me, and while I appreciate your attempt at romance, I’m not in the mood at this moment. I’m changing the babies into warmer clothes to take them out for a bit.”

The gown didn’t shimmer, didn’t change, didn’t go poof. He shook his head. “I’m going to send you a photo of something. Hang on.”

He snapped a photo and texted it to her.

“What do you think about that?” he asked.

“Oh, Xav,” she said. “That’s so sweet of you. But not necessary.”

“What’s not necessary?” A wedding dress felt very necessary to this situation.

“That you found another gown to replace the one I burned up. But it doesn’t really work that way.

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